Toy money-box.



l Patented Feb. 5, |901. C. F. ULM, Sn. &. J. THALHEIM.

TOY MONEY BOX.

(Application led Mar. 31, 1900.)

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Ntra 'raras CHARLES F. OLM, SR., AND JOHN THALHEIM, OF FOND DU LAC,WISOONSIN.

TOY MONEY=BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.

Application iiled March 31, 1900.

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Be it known that we, CHARLES F. OLM, Sr., and J ontT THALHEIM, citizens of the United States, and residents of Fond du Lac, in the county of Fond du Lac and State of l/Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Money-Boxes; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Our invention has for its object to provide simple, economical, and amusing toy moneyboxes; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts, hereinafter particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawing and subsequently claimed.

The drawing illustrates a broken toy moneybox in accordance with ourinvention, and,re ferring by letter to said drawing, A indicates a base having a depending supporting-flange b as well as a hollow vertical upper protuberance c at its front end, this protuberance being provided with a guide-aperture in its top for a bolt B in rigid connection with a leafspring O, riveted or otherwise fastened at its rear end underneath the base. The forward end of the leaf-spring extends through a recess in the base-plate flange b and, with the bolt aforesaid, constitutes a latch for a pivotal spring controlled coin carrier, hereinafter more particularly specified.

Mounted on the base is a coin-receptacle D, provided with a front upper vertical slot d for the admittance of coin, and in common with other toy money-boxes the one herein particularly set forth will be provided with a normally-closed convenient aperture throu gh which to eject its contents.

Abutting the bolt B of the above-described spring-latch we show a lug e of an arm E, one end of which engages a forward play-slot in the coin-receptacle with which it has pivotal spring-controlled union, the lug end of the arm being curved and provided with an upper recessf in which to stand a coin, said arm constituting what has heretofore been designated by the term coin-carrier. As to the detail herein shown, F indicates the axis of the coin-carrier, and G a spring coiled on an annular shoulder g of the same, the ends of the spring being in the form of hooks respectively caught on a lateral lug h of said coin-carrier and a lug i in the coin-receptacle.

667,332, dated February 5, 1901.

Serial No. 10,887. (No model.)

With the exception of the springs the parts above specified will be preferably of cast metal, and the spring G is under tension when the carrier E is swung down and held by the bolt B in position to receive a coin. A coin being positioned in the recess f of the set carrier and bolt B retracted said carrier will be thrown upward on its axis by expansive force of spring G to have forcible impact with the front of the receptacle D above the slot d therein, whereby the coin is dislodged and deposited in said receptacle through said slot, after which the aforesaid thrower is reset. l

' As herein shown, we prefer that the coinreceptacle shall simulate an elephant having a covered howdah erected thereon, the coincarrier being the trunk of the animal and the protuberance on the base an obstruction in the path of said animal.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A base-plate having a depending supporting-ange and an upper protuberance, a leafspring fastened at one end underneath the base-plate and ext-ended through a recess in said flange, a bolt fast on the spring and extended through a guide-aperture in the top of the base-protuberance, aslotted receptacle mounted on the base-plate, a coin-carrier in the form of a recessed arm having pivotal union with the receptacle and provided with a lug against which the aforesaid `bolt is normally opposed, lugs on said receptacle and the arm, and a spring that being coiled on an annular shoulder of said arm has its ends in connection with the latter lugs, retraction of said bolt permitting throw of the arm under expansive force of the latter spring whereby a coin set in the arm-recess is automatically discharged through the slot in the receptacle.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands, at Fond du Lac, in the county of Fond du Lac and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

cHAs. F. oLM, sa. JOHN THALHEIM.

Witnesses ELIAS THALHEIM, GUsTAv WEYNER. 

